which languages? I've just restored an Amiga 500 with Workbench 2.1 and I'd love...

mkesper · 2024-01-03T21:47:48

Modula2 was available and got used on Amiga. Silly teenager me found such high level languages "cheating" at the time.

greggman7 · 2024-01-04T00:52:48

Lords of the Rising Sun was written in Modula2 on the Amiga

https://www.google.com/search?q=lords+of+the+rising+sun

My understanding (please correct me) is that Turbo Pascal on PC was actually Modula2 ?

pjmlp · 2024-01-04T08:16:29

No, Borland did have a Modula-2 compiler (where actually Martin Odersky of Scala fame worked on), but they decided to focus on Turbo Pascal and sold it.

FabHK · 2024-01-04T10:33:20

There was a fun break-out clone on the Atari ST, Bolo, that was written in Modula-2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolo_(Breakout_clone)

http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-st-bolo_8775.html

linsomniac · 2024-01-04T04:18:00

The recent discussion here about Turbo Pascal commenters said it was written in assembly. Seems to be supported by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

greggman7 · 2024-01-04T19:29:47

I'm not suggesting Turbo Pascal was written in Modula2, I'm saying it implemented Modula2, not Pascal. Modula2 is a superset of Pascal. Pascal never had modules AFAIK but Turbo Pascal did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-2

bhaak · 2024-01-03T22:54:18

At least several Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon-2 compilers.

My very first compiled programming language was Pascal. I got the free "PCQ Pascal" from the Fish disks as I wasn't able to get the C headers from Commodore which I would have needed for doing proper Amiga programming. Likewise later Oberon-A although I don't remember where I got that from.

There were also commercial Modula-2 and Oberon-2 compilers. I just found that the Modula-2 compiler was open sourced some years back. https://m2amiga.claudio.ch/

Aminet has directories for Oberon and Modula-2 related programs: https://aminet.net/dev/obero and https://aminet.net/dev/m2